Wearing apparel



D. NEUSTADT WEARING APPAREL Nov. 28, 1933.

Filed May 20, 1933 IN VEN T02 Dav/a Neaffda f.

9 7" 7'0 ENE Y Patented Nov. 28, 1933 UNITED" srArss WEARING APPAREL David Neustadt, Decatur, 111.

Application May 20, 1933.. Serial No. 671,989

3 Claims.

This invention relates generally to wearing apparel and, more particularly, to a certain new and useful invention in wearing apparel of the types commonly known as under garments, night-Wear, and the like, such, for instance, as drawers and pajamas.

My invention has for its chief object the provision of a garment of the types stated having a waist-band economically and attractively equipped with simple and efiicient means comprising uniformly spaced tying-ribbons or tapes and co-operably spaced accommodating openings or slits for adjustably securing the garment at its Waist-band snugly on the body of the wearer.

And with the above and other objects in View,

' my invention resides in the novel features of form, construction, arrangement, and combination of parts presently described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawing,

Figure 1 illustrates in elevation a garment equipped with a waist-band constructed in accordance with and embodying my invention, the waist-band being shown as when in tied or secured condition upon the body of a wearer; and

Figure 2 illustrates the garment with the waist-band untied and open for fitting or draping on the wearer.

Referring now more in detail and by reference characters to the drawing, which illustrates a preferred embodiment of my invention, A designates the main or body of a wearing apparel garment, such as a pair of under-drawers, pajamas,

or the like, the same comprising the usual front placket 1 and leg-portions 2, the former including overlapping portions extending from approximately the crotch of thegarment to the upper margin thereof.

Stitched or otherwise secured to and along the upper margin of body A, is a waist-band B, which includes opposedfront-portions 3, 3, and opposed rear-portions 4, the former endWise overlapping flatwise with the placket members 1 and preferably interposed between and fixed to the latter portions is a strip of elastic webbing or the like 5 for yieldingly augmenting the fit and comfort of the Waist-band on the wearer of the garment.

Formed in the one or outer front waist-band portion 3, is a series of any suitable number of equally or uniformly spaced transverse openings or slits 6 for neatly and smoothly accommodating the flexible tying end-portions '7, 7, of a tape,

ribbon, or the like C having its central portions 5 8 co-operably disposed fiatwise upon, and fixed,

as by thread-stitches 9, to, the outer .or front face of the other or under front waist-band portion 3. As best seen in Figure 2, said tape central or intermediate portion 8, as so fixed on the waist-band A, has a length substantially equal to the spacing between the respective slits 6, so that the tying ends '7, 7, are similarly spaced at their inner fixed end and project forwardly in, as it may be said, parallel relation for ready projection through any respective two adjacent slits 6 for tying, as shown, over the outer waist-band portion 3 for smoothly securing the outer front Waist-band portion 3' fiatwise overlappingly upon the under front waist-band portion 3 in adjustably fitting the waist-band A on the wearer.

The garment and its waist-band may be inexpensively manufactured, are neat and attractive on the wearer, and fulfill in every respect the objects stated; and it is to be understood that changes in the form, construction, arrangement, and combination of the several parts of the garment and waist-band may be made and substituted for those herein shown and described without departing from the nature and principle of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,-

1. In a wearing-apparel garment, a body having a longitudinal placket comprising overlapping portions extending to the upper margin of the garment, a Waist-band fixed to and upon the garment at its upper margin, portions of the waist-band overlapping fiatwise at said placket and said outer waist-band portion being provided with spaced slits, and a tape fixed intermediate its ends to and upon the outer face of said under waist-band portion for projection of its end-portions through said slits for tying co-operation upon the outer face of the outer Waistband portion for fiatwise securing said Waistband portions in overlapping relation.

2. In a wearing-apparel garment, a body having a longitudinal placket comprising overlapping portions extending to the upper margin of the garment, a waist-band fixed to and upon the 100 garment at its upper margin, portions of the waist-band overlapping fiatwise at said placket and said outer waist-band portion being provided with spaced slits, and a tape fixed intermediate its ends to and upon the outer face of said under 105 waist-band portion for projection of its end-portions through said slits for tying co-operation 7 upon the outer face of the outer Waist-band portion for fiatwise securing said waist-band portions in overlapping relation, said intermediate 110 flatwise upon and fixed to the outer face of the under waist-band portion for projection of its end-portions forwardly in approximately parallel relation through an adjacent pair of said slits for tying oo-operation upon the outer face of the outer waist-band portion for adjustably securing said latter portion overlappingly fiatwise on the under portion, said intermediate fixed portion of the tape having :a length approximately equal to the spacing ofsaid slits.

DAVID NEUSTADT. 

